Resources
Supplies
- You or your
members can supply everyday objects from the kitchen or around the house.
- Stores like
Costco, BJ’s, etc. are a good source for bulk packages of art supplies, latex
gloves, etc.
- Learning
Things, Inc.
(800) 284-5688
P.O. Box 1112,
Olean, NY 14760
Great low-cost educational and scientific tools and gizmos. Get their catalog.
They invented and sell a great hand-held microscope called an Ultrascope.
They also sell inexpensive hand lenses, slides, and other microscope supplies.
- Finger Print
Laboratories, Inc.
100 Hunter Place
Youngsville, NC 27596
(800) 356-7311
They supply crime lab "evidence bags!"
Books
- Microscopic
Explorations, A GEMS Festival Teacher’s Guide
by Susan Brady & Carolyn Willard.
Lawrence Hall of Science, Univ. of CA at Berkeley, 1998.
(this book also has a good list of microscopy-related Web sites)
- The World
of the Microscope, A practical introduction with projects and activities
by Chris Oxlade & Corinne Stockley.
London: Usborne Publishing Ltd., 1989
Web sites